TY - BOOK AU - Lohrey,Amanda TI - The Labyrinth: a pastoral SN - 9781922330109 U1 - A823.4 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Melbourne, Victoria PB - Text Publishing KW - Labyrinths KW - fast KW - Art and mental illness KW - Artists KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Mothers and sons KW - Prisoners KW - Family relationships KW - Social isolation KW - Trust KW - Families KW - Fiction KW - Pastoral fiction KW - Parent and child KW - Guilt KW - Denial (Psychology) KW - Art KW - Psychological aspects KW - Australian fiction KW - Australia KW - Australian KW - Psychological fiction KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft KW - 21st century KW - local N2 - Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for homicidal negligence. In a state of grief, Erica cuts off all ties to family and friends, and retreats to a quiet hamlet on the south-east coast near the prison where he is serving his sentence. There, in a rundown shack, she obsesses over creating a labyrinth by the ocean. To build it—to find a way out of her quandary—Erica will need the help of strangers. And that will require her to trust, and to reckon with her past ER -